Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5657870 | Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology | 2017 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
Organ production outside the human body could address the shortage of organs for transplantation. However, in vitro organ production is still a faraway perspective, particularly because of the difficulty in establishing an effective vascularization. A new emerging technology proposes to use carrier animals for the development of human organs. In this approach, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) are injected in animal embryos to produce chimeric animals that contain autologous human organs.
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Authors
J. De Vos, S. Assou,